Copper Tutorial

Questions and answers related to copper, from mining to end-of-life, and back.

[0] About this tutorial

[1] History of copper

[2] Copper's properties

[3] Copper resources

[4] Mining copper

[5] Smelting and refining

[7] From copper to semis

[8] Copper in products

[9] Systems using copper

[10] End-of-life and recycling

[11] Economics of copper

[12] Copper business

[13] Copper's environmental profile

[14] Copper in society

[16] The future of copper

[17] Key numbers

[18] The chapter of 'tens'

[20] Organisations supporting the copper industry

[21] Further readings

[22] Copper & other metals